Education Quotes

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've se

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I believe in local control of education.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Your library is your paradise.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.